Rebecca Ranta is a Fashion & Textile Historian and Fiber Artist with a deep passion for learning and preserving traditional textile crafts. She wholeheartedly believes that traditional practices from the past can help inform a more vibrant and sustainable future. Through intentional embodied practices, Rebecca engages extensive research into archeology and history with her craft in order to elicit a deeper understanding of textile work in context. She specializes in creating handsewn historic garment reproductions with handwoven fabric, using period accurate tools and techniques. She has been studying historic weaving with Kate Smith, since spring of 2022. She is a member of the Northern New England Fibershed Advisory Board and Bast Fiber working group, which was recently awarded a grant to research the feasibility of bringing a bast fiber processing facility back to New England. 

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